81And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: --+2Till when dost thou speak these things? And a strong wind--sayings of thy mouth?+3Doth God pervert judgment? And doth the Mighty One pervert justice?+4If thy sons have sinned before Him, And He doth send them away, By the hand of their transgression,+5If thou dost seek early unto God, And unto the Mighty makest supplication,+6If pure and upright thou art, Surely now He waketh for thee, And hath completed The habitation of thy righteousness.+7And thy beginning hath been small, And thy latter end is very great.+8For, ask I pray thee of a former generation, And prepare to a search of their fathers,+9(For of yesterday we are, and we know not, For a shadow are our days on earth.)+10Do they not shew thee--speak to thee, And from their heart bring forth words?+11`Doth a rush wise without mire? A reed increase without water?+12While it is in its budding--uncropped, Even before any herb it withereth.+13So are the paths of all forgetting God, And the hope of the profane doth perish,+14Whose confidence is loathsome, And the house of a spider his trust.+15He leaneth on his house--and it standeth not: He taketh hold on it--and it abideth not.+16Green he is before the sun, And over his garden his branch goeth out.+17By a heap his roots are wrapped, A house of stones he looketh for.+18If one doth destroy him from his place, Then it hath feigned concerning him, I have not seen thee!+19Lo, this is the joy of his way, And from the dust others spring up.'+20Lo, God doth not reject the perfect, Nor taketh hold on the hand of evil doers.+21While he filleth with laughter thy mouth, And thy lips with shouting,+22Those hating thee do put on shame, And the tent of the wicked is not!+
Young's Literal Translation
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